Ickler: The ABCs of giving thanks

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Nov 24, 2011 at 12:01 AMNov 24, 2011 at 9:34 PM

The congressional super committee is officially a super flop and the effect on our economy could be another super downslide but we Americans are not without blessings to count on this Thanksgiving Day.

Glenn Ickler/Local columnist

The congressional super committee is officially a super flop and the effect on our economy could be another super downslide but we Americans are not without blessings to count on this Thanksgiving Day.

Let us ignore the political idiocy in Washington for at least one day and focus on the good things in life as over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go. Let us give thanks for allemandes and ampersands, apple pies and azure skies, authors and autographs and autopilots; for bosky dells and big brass bells, batting champs and baseball camps, baubles and bangles and bright shiny beads we give thanks today;

For caricatures and cancer cures, calendars and colanders, charts and charms and charmers; for do-si-dos and didgeridoos, dormers and dormice, dangles and dirndls and dendrites we give thanks today;

For egg rolls and eggnogs, eagles and egrets, escargots and escaroles and escarpments; for ferry boats and fortissimo notes, filberts and filters, families and family trees and family visits we give thanks today;

For grandkids and great-grandkids, goats and goatherds, gaffers and graphers and grafters; for hot dogs and hotcakes, holidays and hideaways, hydroplanes and hydrophanes and hydrophytes we give thanks today;

For icons to click and irises to pick, ideas and idealists, ice cubes and ice creams and icings; for jokes and jokers, jacks-in-the-box and jacks-of-all trades, for jujus and jojobas and jujubes we give thanks today;

For key grips and kayak trips, kisses and kitsches, kit bags and kittiwakes and kitty cats; for libraries and libations, lemon pies and laughing eyes, log cabins and log jams and logwoods we give thanks today;

For mysteries and melodies, mariners and marinas, milk chocolates and milk shakes and milkmaids; for newspapers and newsmakers, night caps and night hawks, nurses and nurses aides and nurse practitioners we give thanks today;

For optimists and optometrists, octopods and octogenarians, old guys and old guards and old-school ties; for pretty brides and pleasant rides, piggybacks and popcorn sacks, poplars and poppers and poppies we give thanks today;

For quilting skills and quick quadrilles, quantum leaps and quiet sleeps, quests and questions and questionnaires; for Rivendells and rainy spells, roosters and roasters, rehearsals and rehashes and rehabilitations we give thanks today;

For square dancers and surgeon's answers, sundogs and sunsets, soldiers and sailors and ships at sea; for turtles and tortillas, thingamabobs and thingamajigs, teachers and talkers and therapists we give thanks today;

For utopian lakes and upside-down cakes, Ugli fruit and ugly ducklings, umiaks, umlauts and umpires; for Velcro strips and Vineyard trips, victors and vectors, vocations and vacations and verifications we give thanks today;

For water birds and water boys, waffles and wassails, wind chills and windmills and windy hills; for xylographs and xysters, xenoliths and xenophiles, xebecs and xanthenes and xiphoids we give thanks today;

For yahoos and yoo-hoos, yokes and yolks, yard sales and yard sticks and yardarms; for zigzag lines and Zodiac signs, zebras and zebus, zigzags and zingers and zinnias we give thanks on this Thanksgiving Day.

Glenn Ickler of Hopedale has been providing Daily News readers with his "ABCs of Thanksgiving" for decades.

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